Blanket-clasp



(No Model.)

1). WALKER.

BLANKET CLASP.

No. 387,834. Patented Aug. 14, 1888.

INVENTOR WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

N, PETERS. Phmwbcgnpher. Wuhingmm II C NITE STATES DONALD \VALKER, OF CALEDONIA, NEW YORK.

BLANK ET-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,834, dated August 14:, 1888.

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Be it known that I, DONALD WALKER, of Caledonia, in the county of Livingston and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Blanket-Clasp, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a clasp for blankets, and has for its object to provide a device which may be quickly applied to a blanket when in position over the harness, and effectively retain the blanket in contact with the harness without piercing or otherwise injuring either.

The invention consists in a clasp adapted to retain a blanket in engagement with a strap or straps of a harness, and in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawi ngs,formin g a part of this specification,in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the application of the device. Fig. Q-isa perspective view of said device; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the blanket, strap, and clasp.

It is the prime object of the present invention to provide a means whereby a blanket when placed over a horse and harness may without the slightest injury be securely clamped to a strap or straps of the harness at any available point.

To this end I illustrate the preferred form of clasp, which consists in apiece of springwire bent upon itself to form the coiled eye A, the members A and A of the said wire being made to cross one another near the eye, whereupon each member is bent at right angles outward, in a curved line downward and inward, and up again in like manner to form approaching inwardly-ciu'ved U shaped arms B B, one arm integral with each member, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The several members, after being bent as above described, are carried parallel with each other horizontally outward in substantial alignment with their respective shanks a a, which shanks intervene the firstbend and the eye.

The extremityof the member A is perfectly straight, while at the extremity of the member A an open loop, (I, isformed extending at right angles in the direction of the contiguous member A, the said loop being adapted to receive the extremity of the aforesaid member A.

I do not confine myself to the especial form of spring-clasp illustrated. Instead of being made in one piece two pieces may be employed and instead of the eye a hinge may be substituted.

In operation the device is opened by carrying the members away from one another and made to engage a blanket, M, over a convenient strap, m, whereupon the members are brought together, clamping the blanket without tearing or marring the same around and about the strap, as shown in Fig. 3. The members are then held as closely together as possible by any suitable or well-known locking device, as I do not confine myself to that shown.

The device when applied presents a very neat appearance, and does not in the least detract from the dressing of the horse, as illustrated in Fig. 1, in which the device is exaggeraled.

Having thus described my invention, what- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I 1. As an improved article of manufacture, the safety pin or clasp for blankets herein described, having its members provided with aligning downwardly and inwardly extending essentially U-shaped' arms, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the safety pin or clasp for blankets herein described, having its members provided with approaching outwardly, downwardly, and inwardly curved essentially U-shapcd arms, substantially as and for purpose specified.

3. The combination, with ablanket and the straps of a harness, of the safety pin or clasp herein described, having its members provided with approaching downwardly, outwardly, and inwardly curved essentially U shaped arms, substantially as and for the purpose set forth, whereby the blanket is pressed and held over and around a given strap or straps.

DONALD \V ALKER.

Witnesses:

J. F. Acknn, .Tn, EDGAR Tarn. 

